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#34 Sunday 29 October 8:45 pm My darling, I am wondering tonight how you are and hoping that break in mail is not too long and lonely for you - I, who am busy all day and in pleasant company at night, miss being in touch with you so much that I can appreciate it a little how it must be for you with less to divert you - always remember how much your happiness means to me, precious, and try to be as I like to imagine you: both as sweet as you are, and as strong as you must be. We'll live through it somehow, and there'll be so much to tell you when I return! Just now, hearing about other children, I long for a little news of Wendy …The Evan Davises are expecting again in about two weeks and he says he really thinks he’d like another girl, though he wanted a boy before Terry (for Harriet Ann, his wife also being named Harriet) came along - Terry is now a year and a half…one of the men in the office I've just been assigned to has twin girls about two years old. About the kite I mentioned recently (after seeing some child with a small improvised one - perhaps you can't buy or else ship them, and anyhow I think I have a better idea if it seems feasible to you: get some strips of cord suitable for crosspieces at the lumber yard (tell them what it's for) and about 14” and 18” [?] (an equal number of each) - that's small, but the breezes here are strong and the kite I saw was quite small; that plus some cheap lightweight cloth if you can buy it, and medium weight string. You might try samples of the different cloth with that small a kite on some windy day. You just notch the crosspieces, glue or tack them together when they fit, bow the horizontal piece with string tied to each end…a slightly loose string runs vertically from the ends of the long piece and the kit cord is tied to it wherever it makes the kite balance (you have to experiment with it). Meanwhile the cloth has been put on the frame by sewing it over a string around the ends, which are notched to hold it. (The kids, of course, can make their own kites with the untrimmed sticks, cloth and string. The latter is the most important item for here, [pg 2] with cloth next and sticks last, tho all three materials are scarce.) You can't give things to the [?] on a personal basis but we could find some way of distributing the stuff, perhaps as playground contest prizes. Let me know if you think it's feasible. Even a few yards of cloth and a few hundred feet of string would make a lot - they can probably dig up rags for tails and some sort of [splinters?] for crosspieces. - Any other ideas? There is one little red and white kitten around the place - I don't know where it came from. It's very clean, but a little hungry looking. Somebody explained that is due to a slight injury which made it [l?] temporarily so that it could no longer catch grasshoppers! I guess there's no extra food scattered about here - regulations as to its disposal are strict, one reason for the remarkable minimization of flies. Noticed in one of the offices here a picture with superimposed caption that you’d enjoy - a languorous, lush and misty woman reclining in negligee looking most inviting, “So round, so firm, so fully packed - so free and easy in the [draw?]…” It's getting late (for us) - my tentmates are in bed or getting in and would notably appreciate my closing so as to put out the light. Had my busiest day today and so wasn't able to write at noon, tho I may be in a little while - incidentally, this is my last sheet of paper and I guess I'll have to scrounge (another popular term here for a universal and often necessary activity) some from the office until it's restocked in the store - just so I'm not reduced to trying to write on t.p. Have ten stamped envelopes left. Goodnight, sweetie-oh, remember my saying in last night's note, Here's to our dreaming of each other tonight? I didn't really expect to because we get up so early that I seldom remember dreaming at all. Well, I had a long one about you this morning - thanks for the birthday present! I forgot all about my birthday till tonight, and then I stopped to recall all the nice things you and little sweetie gave me and it was as [?] as having them to open now - more so, because we were together. Most of the men are opening their Christmas packages as they come - not me. You [?] and tell me a little ahead of time [whe?] like to open yours (evening or early morning's best) and [?] be right along with you I love you Warren
